Renal excretion of urea in the salamande
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Stiffler, Daniel F. ;Hawk, C. Terrance ;Fowler, Beth C.
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Article
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1980
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Renal excretion of urea was assessed in adult and larval Ambystoma tigrinurn by comparing simultaneous clearances of urea and inulin. The mean adult urea clearance ratio (Cu/C,,) was 0.70 2 0.08 indicating net urea absorption. Larvae yielded a mean CV/CI, of 0.92 2 0.04. Individual larvae were quite